High severity · published Sep 11, 2026
CVE-2026-89667
nfsd: close shrinker/GC/fsnotify vs per-net shutdown race in filecache
8.1
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: close shrinker/GC/fsnotify vs per-net shutdown race in filecache
The shrinker, GC worker, and fsnotify/lease callbacks can unhash an
nfsd_file from the rhashtable and then call
nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() to move it to the per-net dispose list.
If nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() runs concurrently, its rhashtable walk
misses the already-unhashed file, and its drain of the per-net dispose
list can run before the file has been queued. The file then sits on
the per-net list with no thread to drain it, leaking both the file and
its associated state.
The GC worker and shrinker already hold nfsd_gc_lock while walking the
LRU, but in the original code they release it before calling
nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed(). The fsnotify/lease path
(nfsd_file_close_inode) has no synchronization at all.
Fix this by:
1. Widening nfsd_gc_lock in both nfsd_file_gc() and nfsd_file_lru_scan()
to cover the nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() call.
2. Wrapping nfsd_file_close_inode() in nfsd_gc_lock so that all three
callers of nfsd_file_dispose_list_delayed() hold the lock.
3. Adding a spin_lock/unlock(nfsd_gc_lock) barrier in
nfsd_file_cache_shutdown_net() after the purge, so that any
in-progress disposal has fully completed before the per-net list
is drained.
All operations inside the lock are non-sleeping (rhashtable lookups,
atomic bit/refcount ops, list moves, svc_wake_up), so the spinlock is
appropriate.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 45% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
Linux · Linux
ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 before b15997b53b61c74fb4d083f7261d19f389ff854f; ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 before 6d6b9f6a75c3767250e9c23ace4e384ab8f7843e; ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 before 08af9593e2b472fd98c00faf1bf03bdbb7203477; ffb402596147ac583f3464ff5c48feb9423e3838 before 40162cfea79b9510380decfdd1795b754dc9f972; 6.9 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89667
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89667
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08af9593e2b472fd98c00faf1bf03bdbb7203477
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40162cfea79b9510380decfdd1795b754dc9f972
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d6b9f6a75c3767250e9c23ace4e384ab8f7843e
git.kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b15997b53b61c74fb4d083f7261d19f389ff854f
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